This document focuses on the deployment of Web services for a product shipping solution in the Northern Electronics scenario....   Read Article.

Focusing on health modeling, instrumentation, and monitoring in the Northern Electronics scenario, this document examines how the solution architect applies a health modeling approach to Web services in the product shipping solution....   Read Article.

This document focuses on the high-level issues of the Web service design for a product shipping solution in the Northern Electronics scenario....   Read Article.

The authors propose and develop a framework that seeks to address how to coordinate people, process, and technology issues throughout the service life cycle, presenting a simplified view into Web service goals and examining issues of Web services....   Read Article.

This document focuses on communicating business operations requirements to the IT organization by applying business operations modeling to the product shipping business collaboration in the Northern Electronics scenario....   Read Article.

Using the story of how Northern Electronics works with its business partners to improve its product shipping process, the authors discuss a systematic approach to formalizing information from many domains into reusable, structured, and connected models....   Read Article.

This volume of the Architecture Chronicles on Dynamic Modeling: Aligning Business and IT looks at how you can use different architectures, from Open Business Standards to IT industry architectures, in a connected fashion to support a dynamic enterprise....   Read Article.

Services have dependencies in often undocumented and unintended ways. The second in a collaborative series that focuses on the design of Web services, this article discusses contracts as a way to describe these dependencies and make them more manageable....   Read Article.

A key part of the software architect's job is producing an architectural description of the system that defines the architecture's key functions, features, and characteristics for its stakeholders. Where do you start? What do you need to know? Nick Rozanski and Eóin Woods provide detailed answers to these questions, with useful suggestions...   Read Article.

The main advantages of representing other types of views in UML are 1) a common data model and 2) a common set of tools that can be used to manipulate that model. However, attempts at representing additional views in UML usually fall short of their full integration with existing views. Integration extends representation by also describing interactions...   Read Article.

Round - Trip Software Engineering using UML: From Architecture to Design and Back The paper assesses UML's suitability for modeling architectural concepts and provides a framework for identifying and resolving mismatches within and across different UML views, both at the same level of abstraction and across levels of abstraction. Finally, the paper...   Read Article.

UML Component Diagrams and Software Architecture - Experiences from the WREN Project: In the course of building Wren, a component-based development environment, the authors encountered several difficulties when they tried to use UML component diagrams for modeling software architectures. One, the semantic interpretation of interfaces and dependencies...   Read Article.

This paper has clarified and extended UML solutions for describing system software structures and the deployment of software components on a hardware platform. This work has focused on the transition from a SDL specification to a concrete system. The architectural design concepts are introduced, the SOON notation is presented, the implementation concepts...   Read Article.

Using UML in Architecture - Level Modifiability Analysis In this scenario-based method for software architecture-level modifiability analysis of business information systems, the authors use architectural views to determine and express the effect of change scenarios. They distinguish four architectural views. They used the Unified Modeling Language...   Read Article.

Use cases are easily understood by users since they are essentially textual descriptions, but lack the precision and the conciseness accomplished by the other diagrammatic tools of UML. Besides, there is no systematic method that helps the designer to obtain such UML diagrams from a set of use cases. In this paper the authors present a diagrammatic...   Read Article.

This UML poster shows artifacts created and maintained at GDPro. UML diagrams are provided for class, generalization, multiplicities, association, interfaces, parameterized class, activity diagrams, package diagrams, use case diagram, sequence diagram, state diagram, collaboration diagram, and concurrent states....   Read Article.

Concurrent programs are incredibly difficult to debug. Race conditions are just the most security-relevant type of concurrency problem. In this chapter Gary McGraw and John Viega explore race conditions and their security ramifications. n...   Read Article.

The root of most security problems is software that fails in unexpected ways. Although software security as a field has much maturing to do, it has much to offer to those practitioners interested in striking at the heart of security problems....   Read Article.

To put it bluntly, an architecture is a bet, a wager on the success of a system. Wouldn't it be nice to know in advance if you've placed your bet on a winner, as opposed to waiting until the system is mostly completed before knowing whether it will meet ......   Read Article.

Bruce Powel Douglass provides a number of patterns to help organize, manage, use, and share finite resources when building real-time and embedded systems....   Read Article.